Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/13-9/19
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside! Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which…
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This Is What We’re Jamming To
We’ve pretty much been listening to Chaka Khan‘s “You Got The Love” on repeat here at Rumpus HQ. Enjoy:
Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/6-9/12
This week, a picnic-y Labor Day edition of Quiet Lightning, The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion, the 33rd episode of Literary Death Match, and the 12th annual Power To The…
Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #5: Allo Darlin’
1. Sometimes, at the top of this site, it says “you don’t co-op pop culture, pop culture co-ops you.” A good musician friend of mine named Adam Balbo likes to…
Introducing Crud Wizard
“My favorite band is Iron Maiden and I hate Reagan, and hippies, and Jesus.” Via Westword, I came across Crud Wizard, a nine year-old’s metal blog. His dad is helping…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/23-8/29
This week in San Francisco: an Adult Writers’ Seminar at 826 Valencia, a record release at Jellyfish Gallery, sweet animation at A.T.A., and, as always, art and poetry in The…
Swinging Modern Sounds #25: 100% Nepotism
It’s the Internet, where I am plying my trade here, and it’s meant to be the Wild West—unregulated, unruly, unpredictable.
Notable New York, This Week 8/16 – 8/22
This week in New York Summer is Short, John Brandon makes a Citrus pit stop, Gary Shteyngart is Super Sad, MGMT is inspired by sex balls, Scott Pilgrim takes over…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/16-8/22
This week: m.g. martin’s book launch at Space Gallery, explore some linear and visceral expressions of time, Jennifer Jajah Hearts Hamas, and celebrate the birth of another Mission art gallery…
Greil Marcus on Biography, Memoir, And Art
“To trace anybody’s work, what they produce, what they put into the world, what you or I respond to, to somebody’s life, their biography, is utterly reductionist. Some people are very…
Where did all the music go?
Breaking it down. THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy…